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The Nature of Sympathy (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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The Nature of Sympathy (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social
emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred,
and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with
which they are associated. Scheler criticizes other writers, from
Adam Smith to Freud, who have argued that the sympathetic emotions
derive from self-interested feelings or instincts. He reviews the
evaluations of love and sympathy current in different historical
periods and in different social and religious environments, and
concludes by outlining a theory of fellow-feeling as the primary
source of our knowledge of one another. A prolific writer and a
stimulating thinker, Max Scheler ranks second only to Husserl as a
leading member of the German phenomenological school. Scheler's
work lies mostly in the fields of ethics, politics, sociology, and
religion. He looked to the emotions, believing them capable, in
their own quality, of revealing the nature of the objects, and more
especially the values, to which they are in principle directed.
"Scheler's book is in many ways important and great. The questions
raised and the method followed are important: modern British
thought with its crude use and abuse of the "emotive theory" could
do well with a systematic study of the emotions which might show
them up as complex intentional structures, and which might rely as
much on the phenomenological insights of a Scheler, as on the
behaviouristic flair of Gilbert Ryle."-J.N. Findlay, Mind
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